Oval Definition:
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20176965000
Revision Date
:
2017-03-17
Version
:
1
Title
:
CVE-2017-6965 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
Description
:
readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Family
:
unix
Class
:
vulnerability
Status
:
Reference(s)
:
CVE-2017-6965
Platform(s)
:
Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s)
:
Definition Synopsis
Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
AND
The 'binutils' package in cosmic is affected and needs fixing.
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